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Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by augusto-moura »

pionar wrote: post #16
augusto-moura wrote: post #3

I would love to see this as a cli, I'm tired of PlantUML's[1] document compilation time. Guess even the plain text tools are made in React nowadays, sigh [1]: https://plantuml.com/

I've had no problems with PlantUML's compilation time. How large are these documents?

Pretty small actually, they don't take like hours, but just a few seconds, the problem is the preview feedback, I like to keep a entr and feh open while a edit the document to give a live preview of my changes, the problem is that the 3-4 seconds latency really mess this up

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by smusamashah »

Veuxdo wrote: post #37
smusamashah wrote: post #30

A list I compiled of 40+ similar text to diagram tools. https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/ Input in this one is very simple and cool.

Missing Ilograph: https://app.ilograph.com/ It's heavier-duty compared to most of the others you have listed, but should appeal to engineers who want something more robust.

This is amazing. Basically making architecture diagrams from yaml.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by flanbiscuit »

bleepbaboop wrote: post #36

Implementing the use of a '?' in order to generate a diamond shaped "if/else" would be nice. For example: Some text(2) Yes: (line num) No: (line num)

This would be nice.

You can do it now with full nodes but would be nice to have a specific node type for that

  This is my chart
   This is a conditional statement
    Yes: Do thing A
    No: Do thing B

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by yubrshen »

Very interesting. It might be very powerful to somehow integrate with emacs/vim so that their wordsmith capability can facilitate the little discipline in text editing.

How do I export the diagram generated?

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by anonu »

genericone wrote: post #35

Unfortunately my corporate firewall/IT-Policy blocks this page, possibly due to the *.fun domain. Any other way to try this out for those working in an office? ( I know I'm an outlier at this time)

setup a web-based proxy in the cloud - make sure its in front of a .com domain (that does not have the word "proxy" in it) and get your SSL certs right.

Here's a popular package: https://mitmproxy.org/ You might have to add some basic auth layer to it so as not to make it open to the world.

or just use your cellphone.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by tonerow »

genericone wrote: post #35

Unfortunately my corporate firewall/IT-Policy blocks this page, possibly due to the *.fun domain. Any other way to try this out for those working in an office? ( I know I'm an outlier at this time)

Here's the raw netlify domain - https://agitated-knuth-acd401.netlify.app/
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